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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

I subscribe to Morningstar Research (“MR”), and, this afternoon, I found this note in an e-mail I received from MR …..

“Stateside, CareerBuilder reported in its annual survey that only 25% of employers plan to hire full-time workers in 2012, the same percentage expected for 2011. However, the company also noted that hiring managers tend to be more pessimistic when surveyed than they are in practice.”

Down below the tables, you’ll find the complete article that the above note referred to.

Since the note about Career Builder’s Survey appeared while we are in the middle of conducting a Survey of Reprographers and because we asked two questions in our survey that deal with the “employment attitude” (at least “as of this moment in time”) of Reprographers, we thought we’d share with you what Reprographers are thinking…. so that you can compare these (preliminary) survey results with the results that Career Builder published.

Hiring should remain cautious through 2012, as one in four employers expect to bring on new full-time workers next year, same as in 2011, according to employment company CareerBuilder's annual survey.

But CareerBuilder Chief Executive Matt Ferguson said its surveys often find that employers are more cautious in their predictions than their actual hiring practices, leading CareerBuilder to believe that 2012 will be a better year for hiring than this year.

"Many companies have been operating lean and have already pushed productivity limits," Ferguson said. "We're likely to see gradual improvements in hiring across categories as companies respond to increased market demands."

The employment survey included about 3,000 hiring managers and human resources professionals across industries and company sizes. About 23% of those surveyed expect to hire full-time workers, relatively unchanged from 24% for 2011. About 7% plan to lower their headcount, same as this year, while 59% anticipate no changes in their staffing levels. The rest said they were unsure.

Small businesses are reporting more confidence in both hiring and retaining employees, a trend that is likely to boost hiring in 2012.

CareerBuilder also said it expects compensation for skilled positions will rise next year, as recruiting for skilled talent becomes more competitive.

Voluntary turnover should also continue to rise, as employers reported more workers saying they desired higher compensation or felt overworked. About 30% of employers said they lost top performers to other organizations in 2011, and 43% said they are concerned their top talent may go elsewhere in 2012.

Archive of Blog-posts on Repro 101 when Repro 101 was hosted on IRgA web-site

To access the archive of blog posts that were put up on Reprographics 101 when Repro 101 was hosted on the IRgA web-site, go to the blog-post put up on May 31st, 2013, and, when you locate that blog-post, you will find a list of the pdf files that contain those previous blog-posts, as well as "links" to each pdf file.

About Me

40+ year involvement in the reprographics business and industry. Former Chairman/CEO of Rowley-Scher Reprographics, Former Senior Vice President & Chief Business Strategist of National Graphic Imaging (NGI). Former Managing Director of the International Reprographics Association (IRgA). Active as a Management Consultant to firms in the reprographics business. (My consulting practice is called ProActive Management Programs LLC.)